It’s very straightforward.
So long as they share no files, all will be good.
Just install as normal.
1. There are thousands of blogs on a subdomain.
2. Protecting a directory or a subdomain with a password isn’t really a WP issue. Somewhere in your host’s documentation there should be guidelines about it. Or, you can just search Google to find a solution.
hmmm… maybe I sounded smarter than I am because I still can’t figure out the basics. My subdomain will be a wp blog that is a sub to another wp blog, so I’m having trouble with the not sharing any files bit.
Where should I install wordpress? Obviously it should go to a seperate folder than but I’m not sure how do to that.
…maybe this really is easy and I’ve been looking at this screen for too long 🙁
subdomain or subdirectory?
Edit. On a second thought… it doesn’t matter. You upload and install WP in the subdomain or subdirectory. I mean full install, all the WP files as you did first time. You can even use the same database, just change the wp_ prefix into something else for the second install.
Thanks Moshu… but I’m still having trouble.
My host uses a control panel and when I made my first wp blog I uploaded everything to my root folder then went to my domain http://www.ficklefish.net and a message from wp came up to click “here” to begin installation. Which I did and all went smoothly.
now.. my subdomain…
I have the files uploaded into my subdomain folder but it won’t run the install. I tried launching the wp-admin-install in a browser but I got a weird page full of code that looks like this:
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wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>
WordPress
hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”); if ($installed) die(__(‘
Already Installed
You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.
‘) . ”); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>
ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
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If I go to my subdomain url I don’t get the fancy click “here” message from wp, but the index file that was automatically set up by my hosts control panel when I created the subdomain which said “this site reserved for http://www.writing.ficklefish.net”. SO.. I deleted that index file to see what would happen and now I get “403 forbidden”
HELP!!!!!!
something isn’t pointing somewhere…..
any ideas?……… much appreciated!!
Don’t panic!
The install should be run from here:
http://www.writing.ficklefish.net/wp-admin/install.php
but it gives a 404 not found error.
it’s there……everything is as far as I can tell, but it still isn’t running.
Is this a “real” subdomain or is it pointing to a directory like >> let’s say:
http://www.ficklefish.net/writing ??
I am afraid this latter one is the case and then the whole thing has to go in a different way… i.e. do not use the subdomain URi but the real one!
If I have a wp blog on the main domain and want to add another to a subdomain do I only change the wp_ part on the config file or do I have the need to change every single file using the wp_?
If you use the same database you should change only the table prefix (the wp_ part :). See also Installing_Multiple_Blogs
